{"product_id":"dark-ride-len-jenkin-9780881456172","title":"Dark Ride","description":"A brilliantly conceived and highly theatrical experience in absurdist drama, in which the audience is taken on a wild and funny metaphysical journey into the fertile imaginations of the diverse characters whose bizarre stories are deftly interwoven into the fabric of the play. DARK RIDE is comprised of a series of vignettes involving characters who, at first, appear to bear no relation to each other. A mysterious figure gives a scholar an ancient manuscript to translate; a thief steals an enormous jewel; a woman assures us that life is all coincidence; a dream-like waitress serves her customers all manner of thoughts and suggestions but no food. The images are bizarrely funny and provocative and, in time, coalesce into a pattern of driving concerns and obsessions that come into focus when the various characters finally meet at an oculists convention in Mexico City. Phantasmagoric, the play takes us on a journey that, in the final essence, transcends the physical world to explore the inner recesses of the mind. \"The trip itself, like a spooky show in a carnival tunnel, is full of bright, surprising images, scary and funny.\" -The Village Voice \"... funny, rich, erudite, playful, assured.\" -Soho News \"Few playwrights have Jenkin's skill at theatrical sleight-of-hand ... it supplies an ingenuity which cannot fail to stimulate both the theatre and the theatregoer.\" -The New York Daily News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Len Jenkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0881456179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780881456172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broadway Play Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.13d","brand":"Len Jenkin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46795339006207,"sku":"9780881456172","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bd32770d-b541-4279-b439-5b20c317e5a2.jpg?v=1744947299","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dark-ride-len-jenkin-9780881456172","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}